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Coal India to focus on higher coal output

Coal India Ltd has placed immediate priorities on output ramp-up and supply increase as well as unlocking of undeveloped reserves in the immediate future.

The new CMD of CIL, Sutirtha Bhattacharya, who assumed charge on Monday, said, “Ramping up coal production and importantly increasing supplies are immediate focus areas”.

He said setting up three railway lines in Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, would help CIL to in unlocking huge coal reserves and increasing coal supplies.

Bhattacharya, who attended a CIL board meeting, said the public sector giant actively participated in the ‘clean India movement’ through sanitation programmes in schools and in the households of the underprivileged.

The new CMD also had a video conference this afternoon with the CMDs of CIL subsidiaries on “pressing issues and priorities of the company”, said a CIL statement.

He indicated that employee welfare, housing, sanitation, health and education would continue to receive priority of CIL.

Bhattacharya, a career IAS officer, was CMD of Singareni Collieries Co Ltd since May 10, 2012 before taking up this new assignment. He also served as the Principal Secretary (Energy) for the Government of (undivided) Andhra Pradesh.

Source: The Hindu BusinessLine